Adobe Illustrator CS4 - Manual (Page 433)

426 USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4
Printing
About transparency flattener presets
If you regularly print or export documents that contain transparency, you can automate the flattening process by
saving flattening settings in a transparency flattener preset. You can then apply these settings for print output as well
as for saving and exporting files to PDF
1.3 (Acrobat 4.0) and EPS and PostScript formats. In addition, in Illustrator
you can apply them when saving files to earlier versions of Illustrator or when copying to the clipboard; in Acrobat,
you can also apply them when optimizing PDFs.
These settings also control how flattening occurs when you export to formats that don’t support transparency.
You can choose a flattener preset in the Advanced panel of the Print dialog box or of the format-specific dialog box
that appears after the initial Export or Save As dialog box. You can create your own flattener presets or choose from
the default options provided with the software. The settings of each of these defaults are designed to match the quality
and speed of the flattening with an appropriate resolution for rasterized transparent areas, depending on the
document’s intended use:
[High Resolution] is for final press output and for high-quality proofs, such as separations-based color proofs.
[Medium Resolution] is for desktop proofs and print-on-demand documents that will be printed on PostScript color
printers.
[Low Resolution] is for quick proofs that will be printed on black-and-white desktop printers and for documents that
will be published on the web or exported to SVG.
Create or edit a transparency flattener preset
You can save transparency flattener presets in a separate file, making it easy to back them up or to make them available
to your service providers, clients, or others in your workgroup. In InDesign, transparency flattener preset files have an
.flst extension.
1 Choose Edit > Transparency Flattener Presets.
2 Do one of the following:
• To create a new preset, click New.
• To base a preset on a predefined preset, select one in the list and click New.
• To edit an existing preset, select the preset and click Edit.
Note: You can’t edit the default flattener presets.
3 Set flattening options.
4 Click OK to return to the Transparency Flattener Presets dialog box, and click OK again.
Export and import a custom transparency flattener preset
You can export and import transparency flattener presets in order to share them with your service providers, your
clients, or others in your workgroup.
1 Choose Edit > Transparency Flattener Presets.
2 Select a preset in the list.